METHODIST CONFERENCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 5 June 1907, Page 3

METHODIST CONFERENCE

THE FIJI DISTRICT. Received loth, 12.42 a.m. Sydney, June 4.

At the Methodist Conference, Doctor Brown moved the adoption of the icport of the Fiji Commission on the constitution of the Fiji district. The conference agreed that tiie pastoral session consist of all the European ministers and preachers on trial, and one native minister from each circuit.

A lengihv debate on the question of the composition of the financial committee took place, and it was finally resolved that it should consist of four superintendent missionaries, two native ministers, and two native lay members of the Church.

Mr Slade said that though he had hee t n away from Fiji for five years, he had not allowed his knowledge of the place to lapse, with the result that he had found it of advantage, to modify his views. He stood in the conference not to oppose lay representation, hut to support it. It was a little hard to go back on his previous standpoint, but he was seeking to do his best for Fiji. They were not forcing anything upon Fiji, for the question had beou before the Group since 1001, and the people there had ha-J time to consider it. Say representation had become a question of importance to Fijian?, who wanted it and unless they got it, there would le a position of danger created.